Critical Thinking:
Give an example of a fallacy
in reasoning. Here are some examples: 1. When my children were very young, I
would tell them to brush their teeth in the evening. I told them that if they
did not brush their teeth, the sugar bugs would eat their teeth all night and
eventually their teeth would turn green and fall out. By predicting dire
consequences, we try to influence behavior. This is an example of using slippery
slope. Maybe some of you child development majors would have a better way of
getting children to brush their teeth, but this worked for me. 2. Here is
another example: When my daughter was in middle school, she died her blond hair
black. I asked her why she did it and she said that she was tired of blond
jokes. She was the victim of the stereotype that all blondes are dumb. 3. You
will also find many examples of fallacies in reasoning in commercials and
political speeches. Can you provide other examples of fallacies in reasoning?
Creative Thinking:
For the creative thinking
part, read about creativity and brainstorming and have a little fun with this
exercise. Provide at least 3 answers to these questions: 1. How is a peanut like
you? Here are my answers. 1. A peanut is wrinkled, like me. 2. A peanut is curvy
like me. 2. I have a hard outer shell and a soft inner shell. How is a peanut
like going to college? In every classroom there are at least 2 nuts, the
instructor and at least one student. The squares on the peanut remind me of rows
of chairs in the classroom. 3. There is usually something good on the inside.
Critical Thinking:
ReplyDeleteImagine a couple living together; the man’s clothes are all over the floor and the kitchens a mess. Instead of just asking the man to please pick up his things, the woman asks him why he has to be such a lazy slob all the time. This is one example of attacking the person rather than discussing the issues.
Creative Thinking:
1. How is a peanut like you?
• A peanut is hard to read, like me.
• I’m kind of quiet like a peanut.
• I’m sensitive on the inside but I have a hard outer shell.
2. How is a peanut like going to college?
• Sometimes I take a PB&J sandwich for lunch?
• Some guy’s babymama’s are nuts.
• It’s nuts that they keep cutting college funding.
Logical fallacies are very common in politics. Before i go in to this let me just i am independent and both sides use countless fallacies, this is just the first that came to mind. One recent example i can think of is how the republicans created the term "death panels" and attached it to Obamacare, which later was dubbed PolitiFacts Lie of the Year for 2009. This is an appeal to fear and it was also used as a straw man argument in many political speeches, commercials, and various forms of media.
ReplyDelete1. How is a peanut like you?
A) I am hard headed like a peanut's shell.
B) I am versatile like a peanut, peanuts can be used to make many different things.
C) I need water to live, like a peanut.
2. How is a peanut like going to college?
A) Both are hard.
B) Both leave you full, one physically the other intellectually.
C) peanuts have to grow, much like our minds as we go throw college.
Critical Thinking :
ReplyDeleteWhen i was little my mom would use a strategy to get me to take a bath everyday before i went to bed. When there would be nights i would be to tired to take a bath, my mom told me if i didn't take a bath the bed bugs would comeand get me. This is an example of using slippery slope. My mom still uses this method with my little sister and it still works.
Critical Thinking
1. How is a peanut like you ?
A)At times i can crack under pressure like a peanut.
B) No peanut is perfect , I am not perfect
C) I like to go to sports games ,like a peanut.
2. How is a peanut like going to college?
A) A bag of peanut is different, all students are different as well.
B) you have to pay for peanuts , just like college books .
C) College can drive anybody nuts.
Fallacies in reasoning:
ReplyDeleteA red herring argument is an irrelevant point which distracts us from the issue at hand. Political ads are FULL of these! For example, I personally didn't vote for Bob Filner, but I saw a commercial on TV several times that talked about how "scary" he was because at one time he was charged with assaulting a baggage handler. We do not know the whole story for sure, and what does that have to do with the job he will do as mayor? Another red herring argument would be to say something like "How can President Obama run our country?! I mean, he smokes cigarettes!"
Creative thinking:
1) How am I like a peanut?
a. I am pretty much the same color as a peanut :)
b. I am healthy
c. I crack under pressure(hahaha)
2. How is a peanut like going to college?
a. Peanuts are hard, just like college.
b. Peanuts(the nut, not the shell) are smooth, and your college experience can be smooth with proper planning and preparation.
c. It takes time to shell peanuts, just like it takes time to do your work for college.
-Amy Allen
Creative thinking:
ReplyDeleteGrowing up, watching television was my favrite sport (if it is considered a sport). I would sit and stare at the tv all day if I could. I often skipped meals and missed out on sleep because of the non stop entertainment that is being displayed in front of my eyes. This however all changed when I hit the age of 10 years old. My mother told me that since I have hitten double digits in age, I am limited to a 2 hour tv limited a day or else I will become blind. This is an example of using slippery slope. Because of her authority I am condoned to agree with everything she says. By predicting dire consequences, we try to influence behavior. Growing up and averaging 30 minutes of televsion was rough growing up however I soon to adapt and dropped the bad habit.
Creative thinking:
1) How am I like a peanut?
a. I'm always hard
b. I look dull but I taste good
c. I need a shell to be safe
2. How is a peanut like going to college?
a. Peanuts come in different shape and sizes
b. Like college, peanuts can either be soft or hard depending on the condition you put it through
c. Without the shell peanuts will fall apart from each other; lost identity
-Dorian Cao
How is a peanut like you?
ReplyDelete•A peanut has heart like me.
•A Peanut is good like me.
•A peanut is brown like me.
How is a peanut like going to college?
•A peanut is hard like college.
•There is different kinds of peanuts just like different kinds of personalities in college
•It takes time for a peanut to grow just like it takes time to learn many things.
Give an example of a fallacy in reasoning.
Before I finished my high school my dad told me “Bahnam you have a year in tell you finish high school your mother and I in our best interest that we want you to go to college and have any degree at your choice and if you decide not too you’ll have financial problems in the future and you won’t have the job you always look for to be satisfied if you go to college you will meet your goal with no problems and have a better future.” This was an example of slippery slope.
Creative thinking
ReplyDelete1. How is a peanut like me?
a. Peanuts are normally with a bunch of other peanuts but in reality each one is an individual ultimately its own.
b. Not every one likes peanuts but the people who do love them.
c. Peanuts have many uses.
2. How is a peanut like going to collage?
a. It looks hard from the outside but once you get into it you enjoy it.
b. No two peanuts are exactly alike.
c. Though peanuts are often enjoyable some times you just get sick of them.
Critical Thinking:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little my mom use to tell me that if I go outside without shoes on worms would crawl into my skin threw my feet. Till this day my mom still tells this story to my little cousins. This happens to be an example of using the slippery slope method.
Creative thinking:
1. How am I like a peanut?
• I am sensitive on the inside
• I’m not perfect
• I’m brown
2. How is a peanut like going to college?
• Peanuts and college are somewhat hard
• All peanuts and students are different
• A peanut grows and so do our minds in college
1.How is a peanut like you?
ReplyDeletea) same as my skin color.
b)peanut is hard to brake.
c)not all peanuts are perfect.
2. How is a peanut like going to college?
a) a peanut is rough from the outside,but it's mushi from the inside.college is the same thing, it's pretty hard to do work, but in the end it benefits your life.
B)a peanut has two things, the outer and the inner.college has a classroom and chairs inside it.
c)peanut has squares and it reminds me of math.
Critical thinking:
I tell my daughter to always have neat work and clean everything. If she did it I would usually let her go with her sister to anywhere she goes that week.By doing that she would do all her chores neatly and clean it the way I tell her to.
Critical thinking:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger i was very picky on what I ate, and often my mother made me a separate dinner from my family. My mother knew I hated doctors, and often would push them away if they gave me a shot, so she told me that if I eat an apple a day it keeps the doctor away, It didn't work. I'm still very picky.
How is a peanute like you?
a) Hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
b) It's the same shape as me.
c) Acts nutty sometimes
How is a peanut like going to college?
a) It's hard.
b) All are different.
c) You might not like how it looks but you will like it once you taste it.
Fallacies in reasoning come in many different shapes and sizes some are worse than others. But during this time of the every four years fallacies are appearing in great number with not much truth behind them all over the television. During election season this always occur the democrats blame the republicans for being greedy money grubbers whose only goal is to destroy the middle class. On the other hand the republicans are blaming the democrats for destroying the country increasing our already crazy amount of debt and wanting to destroy big business. In both cases the other side is falsely accusing their opponent of things that have not happened and may never happen no matter who is in power, and in the long run both sides look bad.
ReplyDelete1. Critical Thinking:
ReplyDeleteA sophomore in high schools finally gets the chance to hang out with a group of seniors that she has been wanting to hang out with since she was a freshman. They all invite her to a party. They gather into a garage full of strobe lights and fog smoke. In the corner she sees a group of people hovering over a table. Her new group of senior "friends" convince her to come near the table. She apprehensively walks closer to the table and sees them doing a lines of coke. Fear creeps over her skin while a senior in her left ear whispers, "C'mon do it! Everyone else is doing it."
This fictional mini story is an example of a fallacy called the "Appeal to the common practice"
2. Creative Thinking:
How is a peanut like you?
a. I have a peanut shaped head.
b. My skin gets dry like a peanut during the winter time.
c. My skin complexion is like a peanut.
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ReplyDeleteImagine you are working and your partner at job not doing his job very well you can tell him or ask him are you sick yesterday? you forget to do your job very well.instead of tell your partner you did not do your job perfect like often.
ReplyDelete1.How is a peanut like you?
*I am Strong like peanut
*Sometimes I am shy like peanut in the shell
*Sometimes Easy and hard to broke like peanuts
How is a peanut like going to college?
*It is not easy
*taste different like student
*sometimes peanut taste different than other like college course.
Critical Thinking:
ReplyDeleteI remember that in middle school I had a friend that believed that everything he read on the internet was true. He believed that nobody could put anything on the internet unless it was factual. He came to school telling people outrageous facts that were often hilarious because they were so inaccurate. Some other kid told him that the internet could not have false information on it because it was illegal, and he believed it for a very long time. I tried explaining him that much of what was on the internet was true, but that anybody could post information on it.
Critical Thinking:
How is a peanut like you?
a) A peanut can be salty on the outside, but is always tender on the inside
b) There's always much more beneath the surface (shell)
c) We are both healthy
How is a peanut like going to college?
a) You have to work to get to the best part
b) One tastes nutty and the other feels nutty at times
c) Some peanuts/classes are good, and others are just bad
Imagine you are working at the office and you just came to the office and you saw a lot of paper in the floor everywhere and your mate at the office he is working and he is very lazy and do not care. Instead of telling him you should take and organize all the paper from the floor you should tell him are you left the office window open? And the air scattered papers You should close it before start you work.
ReplyDeleteHow is a peanut like you?
1- I am nice like peanut.
2- I soft like peanut.
3- I broke like peanut when you pressure.
How is a peanut like going to college?
1- It is possible to finish it.
2- Different shape like students.
3- Sweet and bitter taste, such as college.
Critical Thinking:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in middle school I really wanted a cell phone so I went to my mom and asked for one. My mom said, "No, there is no reason for you to have a cell phone at your age." I argued, "All of my friends have one." This of course wasn’t true but it was a generalization but she knew it was that and didn’t get me one. Every time we would argue about it I would always say that. Know I realize that wasn’t the best way to go about it. I later got a cell phone because I would always go out and skateboard with friends and she wanted to know I was safe.
Creative Thinking:
How is a peanut like you?
1- I can be a nut sometimes.
2- I like to think I’m healthy like a peanut.
3- I think I would look good with a top hat, monocle and a cane too.
How is a peanut like going to college?
1- Some people enjoy them and others do not.
2- Colleges are different shapes and sizes.
3- It is hard to crack but very rewarding when you’re through.
Critical Thinking:
ReplyDeleteHow is a peanut like you?
1- I can be quite the nut with friends
2- I can be hard headed like a nut shell.
3- I'm healthy like a peanut.
How is a peanut like going to college?
1- Sometimes it's hard or soft (shelled or de-shelled).
2- There is fulfillment after you are done.
3- Schools are different flavors and sizes.
When I was young of about the age of 5 or 6 years old, I would make funny faces at people (crossing my eyes and such); which I found amusing. However, my mother thought it was rude. So, she told me my face would stay like that if I continued to do that. This is an example of slippery slope because of her authority and me agreeing to everything she says.
ReplyDeleteWhen i was younger, i used to think that i had a lucky charm which made me perform really well, (my lucky dollar). I used to bring it with me whenever i had a test or sporting event in which my lucky coin would help me succeed. it turns out that the coin is a false casue of perofrming well. i may feel better and more accomplished when having the coin on me. I do well on things because i practice before taking a test or ran plays over and over again to become better.
ReplyDeleteHow is a peanut like you?
1. I am healthy like a peanut
2. I am strong like a peanut
3. I can be soft like a peanut
How is a peanut like going to college?
1. Some are big and some are small
2. You sometimes enjoy it and sometimes dont
3. You may find it hard in the beigining but soft in the end
When I was little, I always used to stick my tongue out when it was raining so I could taste the rain. My dad told me to not do that because it was gross. I would always do it anyways. One day my dad looked it me and said, "If you stick your tongue out when its raining, worms are going to fall into your mouth." After that I never stuck my tongue out when it was raining again. That was an example of slippery slope.
ReplyDeleteHow is a peanut like you?
1. I am entertaining, like eating a peanut.
2. I am hard to break at first, but then soft once you do.
3. I have many different sides to me.
How is a peanut like going to college?
1. It can be hard at first, but easier the farther along you get.
2. All peanuts are different, like the teachers.
3. You have to pay for peanuts, just like you pay for college.